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A Conservative Impulse in the New Rock Underground

James Wolcott, The Village Voice, 18 August 1975

"No longer is the rock impulse revolutionary — i.e., the transformation of oneself and society — but conservative: to carry on the rock tradition."

Total word count of piece: 2740

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